The 2012 NFL season has come to its dreaded, and for many, sorrowful end; instilling a sense of wistfulness that simply cannot be fulfilled until early September. But luckily, as we all know (especially myself), every new beginning comes from some other beginnings horrible end.

You can stop brooding my fellow football enthusiasts, for it is time to start thinking about the 2013 NFL offseason.

Ohhhhh the offseason, a period that incites fictitious hope and an insatiable anticipation as team die-hards convince themselves that with a few free agent acquisitions and a solid draft class they can ride the winds of change to the Super Bowl. A time where every coveted free agent is interested in becoming a member of said franchise you so passionately and vigorously support. In the few months leading up to the free agency period and draft, fan bases live and die by succumbing to the ever-vicious swirls of speculative rumors and hearsay.